Improved vegetable-slicer



T. MASON.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIQEQ THOMAS MASON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IM PROVED VEGETABLE-S LICER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 48,700, dated July 11,1855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MASON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Vegetable-Slicer;and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with thedrawing which accompanies and forms part of this specification, is adescription of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in theart to practice it.

The principal object of this invention is the rapid and effectiveslicing of vegetables for preparation for table use; and it consists in'combining with one cutter-stock carrying any desirable number of knivesa series of hoppers or conductors, each of which is so arranged withrespect to the common cutter'stock as to present the vegetable in suchform that it shall be cut into slices of even thickness.

The drawing shows a machine embodying the invention, A representing thesame in plan, and B a side elevation of it.

adenotesaframeortable,properlysupported, and having four or any othersuitable number of conductors or vegetable-holders, 1), arranged aroundits center and extending vertically through it. A rotary shaft, 0,passing through this table, carries at or near its lower end acutter-stock, d, the upper surface of which rotates in the'plane of thelower surface of the table. This cutter-stock carries one or moreknives, e, the cutting-edge of which is in or near the plane of theupper surface of the stock, the throat f, adjacent to the knife, havinga hinged incline,

' g, mounted in it, provided with a means of adjustment in such mannerthat its upper surface may be adjusted at any suitable distance belowthe plane ofthecutting-edge of the knife, for the purpose of varying thethickness of the slices cut from the vegetables which fall a gainst saidsurface just in advance of the movement of the cutter by each conductor1). The cutter-stock may be inclined down to the edge of the knife,but'the employment of the adjusta' ble incline is considered preferable,on account of its adapting the machine to cutting vegetables into slicesof any required thickness.

In using the machine the several conductors b are charged with thevegetables to be sliced, when rotation of the cutter-stock will cause aslice to be successively cut from each as the knife passes eachconductor, as will be readily understood. This rotation may be impartedto the cutter-stock by gears g It and a crank-shaft, i, or in any otherconvenient manner.

The machine is simple, not liable to get out of order, and capable ofslicing vegetables with great expedition and in a perfect and uniformmanner.

I claim- The combination of the series of conductors b with the singlerotary cutter-stock cl, arranged to operate together, substantially asset forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of May, A.D. 1865.

THOMAS MASON.

Witnesses:

F. GOULD, J. B. CROSBY.

